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Loyalists; her son, the younger Ward Chipman, died November 26, 1851, the 67th anniversary of the organization of the Supreme Court of Judicature of New Brunswick; Mrs. Chipman, widow of the younger Ward Chipman, died July 4, 1876, the hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence; William Hazen, son of the late William Hazen and grandson of Robert F. Hazen, died June 17th, 1885, the anniversary of the day his great-great-grandfather, William, left his home in the old colonies for St. John, one hundred and ten years before.

The removal of William Hazen to Portland Point in June, 1775, did not seem at the first to be a fortunate event either for himself or his family. For the latter the change from comfortable surroundings, good society, educational and religious advantages, to a scene of comparative isolation with all its attendant privations was in itself no light matter. But the situation was shortly to be aggravated by the tribulations all the settlers were to experience in consequence of the outbreak of the American Revolution. Of this we shall have occasion to speak more fully hereafter.

At the time of the arrival of Mr. Hazen and his family, the English speaking people at the mouth of the river did not exceed one hundred and fifty souls. There is preserved among the archives at Halifax a "Return of the state of the settlement at the mouth of the River St. John on the first day of August, 1775," which gives some information on this head.^[1] The enumeration was made by James Simonds. It does not give the names of all the adult females. In the case, for example, of the households of Messrs. Simonds, White and Hazen, twelve male adults are returned; evidently some of them were employees of the company